On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:33:32AM +0530, Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan <giri@dombox.org> wrote a message of 515 lines which said:
My name is Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan. I'm the guy who proposed SMTP over TLS on Port 26
Besides all the excellent remarks that were made here (and I seriously urge you to read them; really), I want to add:
It's my 5 years of research. So it's worth more than 50 words.
You have a very strange way of measuring the importance of something. A lot of people spent 30 years or more on useless and stupid things. The time past is *not* a good indicator of value.
My prototype codebase has around 200,000 lines of code. [To be exact: 466,965 ++ 254,169 --]
Same thing for source code. Boasting of the number of lines, as if it measured value of the program, won't make people interested. Really, this metric was abandoned or at east downplayed more than thirty years ago.
Sequoia Capital is one of the well known venture firm in the world. They have invested in over 250 companies since 1972, including Apple, Google, Oracle, PayPal, Stripe, YouTube, Instagram, Yahoo! and WhatsApp.
Come on, most people on this list have a lot of experience with the wonderful world of Silicon Valley startups. We have seen a lot of dollars invested in really stupid projects. "One VC gave me money" proves nothing, except that some people have too much money and too little sense.